February is Black History month. In celebration, why not check out one of these new reads!?
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Oritz. 305.8 ORITZ
- Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills 973 WILLS
- Black New Jersey: 1664 to the Present Day by G. R. Hodges. NJ 305.89607 HODGES
- The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality by Anna-Lisa Cox 977.049 COX
- The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America by Anders Walker 973.0496 WALKER
- A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America’s Schools by Rachel Devlin 379.263 DEVLIN
- The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr by Jason Sokol 323.092 SOKOL
- Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till by Elliott J. Gorn 364.134 GORN
- Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell 323.082 BELL
- 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy by James P. P. Horn 975.542 HORN
- Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker 305.89607 WHITAKER
- Brothers in Valor by Robert Jefferson Jr. 355 JEFFERSON
- Glory in their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took on the Army During WWII by Sandra Bolzenius 305.48896 BOLZENIUS
- It Was a Dream: A New Generation confronts the Broken Promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen330.9 ALLEN
- Becoming by Michelle Obama BIOG OBAMA
- Frederick Douglass: The Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight BIOG DOUGLASS
- Let it Bang: A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey into Guns by R. J. Young BIOG YOUNG
- The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart BIOG LOCKE
- The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story that Sparked the Civil War by Jard Brock 306.362 BROCK
- Slavery and the Making of America DVD 306.362 SLAVERY A
-Archana Chiplunkar, Adult Services Librarian